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Teaching in the

digital age: what

every language

teacher should

know

Pete SharmaLinguaramaCheney Court

November 2011

Innovative trends

(1) Rise in learning platforms

Publishers

Authentic

Teacher-produced

(2) Publisher-produced software (3) Apps & M-learning

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(4) The flipped classroom

(5) Learner response devices (6) Touch screen IWBs

(7) Exam Speak IELTS (8) QR-codes

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Critical analysis of five

technologies

1) Interactive whiteboards

2) Blogs

3) Wikis

4) Virtual Learning Environments

5) M-learning

Interactive whiteboards

Learner response

devices

Text to board

Voting

Slates

Peripherals Four approachesRun regular programmes

Pictures

VideosCharts

MapsFlagsTime-lines

Software

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Approach 4 - DIY Interactive whiteboards

Upside Downside

• Memorable presentations

• Better review – flipcharts

• ‘Saveability’

• Range of digital materials

• ‘Always on internet’ – JIT

teaching

• ‘Heads-up’

• Select answer

• ‘cost’

• need to calibrate

• ‘interactivity’

• Promote teacher-centred

approach

• Pedagogical value?

Blogs (Web + log)

Teacher

Class

Student

Publisher’s blog

Coursebook blog

Blogs

Upside Downside

• Easy to set up / free

• Encourage global audience

for learner work

• Wash-back on accuracy

• Does everyone contribute?

• Does the teacher correct

student work?

Wikis

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Wikis

Upside Downside

• collaborative

• process writing

• ‘history’ to see changes

• not intuitive

• not everyone wishes for

peer correction

Virtual Learning Environments

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School to university

Features:

Assignments

Chatrooms

Questionnaire

Quizzes

Forum

Glossary

Handouts

Focus on appropriacy

Same time same place

Same time different

place

Different time

different place

Same place

different time

Synchronous

Asynchronous

Virtual Learning Environments

Upside Downside

• information on demand

• appropriacy e.g. critical

thinking

• pre / post course tasks

• time-consuming to learn

• empty at first

• ‘blended courses’ pleasing

no-one

M-learning

“learning that happens when the learner takes

advantage of the learning opportunities offered

by mobile technologies”.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_learning

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On the moveIn-class

PullPush

Scales / dimensions

Class-set Own devices

Rich content Discrete content

Resource tool One-off

Hardware

• Mobile-phone / Smart-phone

• iPod / iPod touch / mp3 player

• Laptop / Notebook - Netbook

• Tablet PC / iPad / Samsung Galaxy

• E-book readers

• Learner response devices

• Electronic translator

Software plus

�Dictionaries

�Grammar practice

� Services

� ELT material

�Apps

M-learning

Upside Downside

• buzz-term

• add value

• ‘just enough, just in time,

just for me’

• exciting apps

• Range of interpretations

• Over-reference to ‘apps’

• ELT or authentic?

Part three:

Practical

ideas

G1 - Unlikely-likely language• 40 persons / 40 people.

• We're at Stockholm / We're in Stockholm

• If we would have done that…….

• Did you do that already? / Have you done it yet?

• If I was you / If I were you

• Charles, you're not understanding me

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G2 - Infinite clone tool

Right or wrong?

“I am born in Poona”

“I have seen Mark yesterday”

“I am in London for two days”

“If I will see James, I will give him the message”

G3 Grammar matrix

V1 - Word frequencyV2 Storage

V3 Note-able words Listening 1 - MEC

Then Now

• “I’m going to play the tape

twice…….”

• Bookmark it!

• Choice – how many times?

with or without sub-titles?

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L2 Lesson stream (Jamie Keddie) L3 Listening and reading

R1 - ReadingR2 – The wonderful world of E-

books

Kindle Alice for the iPad

R3 Screen reveal tool – speed read Speaking

S1 - Flip video

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S2 - Voting devices

“Students should turn off their

mobile phones in class”

Vote now:1 – Yes

2 - Unsure3 – No

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Series2

S3 - Timed anecdotes

Task repetition

Writing - wiki

W1 – Peer correction

W2 - Refutation

W3 - Handwriting recognition

software

P1 – interactive charts Pronunciation

• P2 - Sound linking

–Take it in / one apple / five

elephants

• P3 - Homographs

–Read / wind / row / tear

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G1 –

Mobile -

recycling

G2 – customising

games – NIOD

Games

• G3 – Digital die

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Teaching in the

digital age: what

every language

teacher should

know

Pete SharmaLinguaramaCheney Court

November 2011